Game-board



A. G. E. LOWMAN.

GAME BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 12, 1918- 1,364,290. Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GAME-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

Application filed February 12, 1918. Serial No. 216,797.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Anoms GEORGE ED- WARD LOWMAN, of the city of Winnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game-Boards, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to improvements in game boards and the object of the invention is to provide an improved form of game board which will allow of the playing of a very interesting and amusing game requiring considerable skill and foresight on the part of the single player.

With the above objects in view the invention consists essentially in a game board having specially numbered positions thereon and specially arranged moveways connecting certain of the numbered positions, the arrangement being more particularly described hereinafter, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 represents a plan view of the game board.

Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of one of the disks or men used in playing the game.

In the drawing like characters of reifen ence indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

A represents the game board which in the present instance is shown circular and is made from cardboard or any such similar stifl? material.

The top or playingsurface of the board is flat and on it I indicate in a conspicuous manner a number of men positions these being indicated in the present instance by circles B and presenting an outer group O of circles, an inner group D of circles and a single central circle E.

The circles of the outer group are numbered consecutively and as indicated 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 8 and 9, the circles of the inner group are numbered consecutively and as indicated 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 and the central circle bears no number and may be termed the dead circle.

The circles of the outer group are all connected by moveways indicated by lines F with the exception of those 1-9, 76 and 4-3 where no connecting moveways appear. The circles of the inner group are all connected one to the other by moveways which are indicated in the present instance by lines G.

Certain circles of the outer group are connected in a particular way by moveways H to the inner circles, that is to say, the circles 9 and 1 are connected to circle 10, circle 7 to circle 14, circle 6 to circle 13, circle 4 to circle 12 and circle 3 to circle 11.

From the above it will be apparent that by this grouping of circles and moveways the board becomes divided into a series of what might be called moving rings, there being a central ring embodying the connected circles 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 and in the present instance three outer moving rings, one embodying the connected circles 7, 8, 9, 10, and 14, another the connected circles 1, 2, 3, 11 and 10 and the other the connected circles 4, 5, 6, l3 and 12. Each moving ring, it will be noticed, contains the same number of circles or moving positions as there are in the inner group of circles, namely five.

Associated with the game board I supply a number of disks or men, one of which is shown and indicated at K and actually the number of men supplied with the board is equal to the total number of the numbered circles which in the present instance is fourteen.

The men are numbered consecutively 1 to 14, the man shown in the drawing being man No. 5.

When one wishes to play the game he takes all the men, except that numbered 14, mixes them up and places them in' irregular order on the numbered circles with numbered face up. Man number 14 is then placed on the dead circle E. When this is done all moving circles but one are covered.

The object of the game is to move the men until they cover the numbered positions in consecutive order. In moving a man can only go from circle to circle on a moveway and he can be moved in any direction. After the men numbered 1 to 13 have been brought to their final places on the positions numbered 1 to 13 the disk 14 on the dead circle is placed on moving position 14 and the game is won.

What I claim as my invention is A game board as described comprising fourteen positions arranged concentrically in inner and outer rows and with the positions of the outer IOW numbered consecutively from one to nine and those of the inner roW numbered consecutively from ten to fourteen, move-Ways connecting the positions of the inner roW and move-Ways con necting the inner and outer positions in 7 three groups, with five positions in each group, three of which belong to the outer 10 and two to the inner row.

Signed at Winnipeg, this 17th day of January, 1918.

G. L. ROXHUGH, K. B. WAKEFIELD. 

